I was promised that I could keep the insurance I already had. What happened?

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yeahhhhh thats on the company you work for (who I'm assuming is providing your insurance). My guess? Cost of your plan went up, company didn't want to absorb those costs since the most likely subsidize a part of the total plans cost, and so you got the shaft on plan coverage and cost with the company blaming obamacare.

there are tons of companies that run products at a loss to keep a customer base satisfied and in tact. Thats essentially what this is. They got record profits due to getting all the new customers via obamacare, and in return had to eat losses in certain areas. You can't have your cake and eat it to. you can't say, "well i want only the benefits of this deal and none of the challenges".

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Ok. are you suggesting that the government require Aetna to provide service in each and every Market?

would you also require ALL insurance companies to provide services in every Market available?

Ok. are you suggesting that the government require Aetna to provide service in each and every Market?

would you also require ALL insurance companies to provide services in every Market available?

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Well I believe single payer is the best solution, so yes this moves closer to that.

But I am suggesting more clearly that Aetna can't take the benefits of ACA (expanded customer base, increased profits overall) without taking some of the losses of ACA. The company I work for currently provides a product currently at a loss of millions to a customer because that customer is a 500 million dollar customer and maintaining that relationship is important. This kind of stuff happens all the time.

My insurance company was forced by Obamacare to drop my old plan because it didn't have some of the essential benefits that are required by every plan now (I don't exactly need coverage for prenatal and maternity but that's what the law says regardless of gender).

yeahhhhh thats on the company you work for (who I'm assuming is providing your insurance). My guess? Cost of your plan went up, company didn't want to absorb those costs since the most likely subsidize a part of the total plans cost, and so you got the shaft on plan coverage and cost with the company blaming obamacare.

My insurance company was forced by Obamacare to drop my old plan because it didn't have some of the essential benefits that are required by every plan now (I don't exactly need coverage for prenatal and maternity but that's what the law says regardless of gender).

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No it was not. You can read the text of the law and it clearly states that the minimum requirements were only for new plans. The thing the insurance companies figures out is that if they dropped the old plans for new ones with more coverage, they could also charge more.

No it was not. You can read the text of the law and it clearly states that the minimum requirements were only for new plans. The thing the insurance companies figures out is that if they dropped the old plans for new ones with more coverage, they could also charge more.

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You got a source for that? I still have my cancellation letter and can scan it later on when I get home from work.

That's all it is. Obamacare was a sloppy wet bajowski to the entire insurance agency where it's mandatory they get paid. Now they want to complain that they're not making enough money? Get real!

The stock market is at record highs and they can't make any money? That's their problem.

They wanted a "Free market" and now they've got it.

Deal with it insurance companies, deal with it.

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lmao, you don't understand anything. They don't operate in a free market and Obamacare is costing them billions. UHG lost like 5 BILLION dollars before they were forced to pull out of the shitty markets. None of the insurers wanted the ACA. It sucks for everyone.

lmao, you don't understand anything. They don't operate in a free market and Obamacare is costing them billions. UHG lost like 5 BILLION dollars before they were forced to pull out of the shitty markets. None of the insurers wanted the ACA. It sucks for everyone.

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I meant the free market that is AMERICA.

And it was still a hot sticky, wet, lube filled bajowski to the insurance industry so I'm not shedding tear one for them.

Yes, they as in your insurance company. That's my point. It was not the law that had people losing plans, it was the insurance companies attempting to make more money.

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Insurance companies were forced to "make more money" (revenue, not profit) out if necessity because the cost to insurers skyrocketed. Why? Because the sick and elderly love the idea of free healthcare and the average healthy, middle class worker hates the idea of paying for the sick and elderly to have free healthcare. It doesn't work, and it won't work the way it's currently designed.

Insurance companies were forced to "make more money" (revenue, not profit) out if necessity because the cost to insurers skyrocketed. Why? Because the sick and elderly love the idea of free healthcare and the average healthy, middle class worker hates the idea of paying for the sick and elderly to have free healthcare. It doesn't work, and it won't work the way it's currently designed.

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Earlier I posted a link showing Aetna had posted record profits for the company as a whole. You can go look and see just about every insurance company out there has done the same since the ACA. So in short, you are dead wrong.

Earlier I posted a link showing Aetna had posted record profits for the company as a whole. You can go look and see just about every insurance company out there has done the same since the ACA. So in short, you are dead wrong.

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They are losing money on the ACA portion though. They lost 200 million in the 2nd quarter alone.